Atari releases the arcade video game Dominos, Atari’s interpretation of a game genre that will later become linked with light cycles from the 1982 movie Tron. 
Atari releases the arcade video game Dominos, Atari’s interpretation of a game genre that will later become linked with light cycles from the 1982 movie Tron.
Bally introduces the Bally Professional Arcade home video game system, based on some of the same technology that Bally and its Midway division have been using in arcade games. This means the Bally Professional Arcade is perfectly suited to home versions of such Midway coin-ops as Space Zap and Wizard Of Wor – possibly the earliest instance of real arcade fidelity in a home game system. Its tiny keypad also allows Bally to claim that the Professional Arcade is a home computer waiting to happen.
The Atari Video Computer System, model number CX2600, hits retail stores in the United States, primarily through a deal with Sears (which has a contractual right to repackage it as the Sears Video Arcade). Packaged with two joysticks, a pair of paddles, and the two-player-only tank game Combat, the VCS isn’t quite a runaway success, with only a quarter million units selling by Christmas 1977.
Atari releases Combat for the Atari 2600. This is the pack-in game included with every console.